Skip to content
River in Germany · Thuringia

Effelder

Effelder is a 17 km (11 mi) tributary river of the Itz in the districts of Sonneberg (Thuringia) and Coburg (Bavaria).

Effelder
Effelder · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Effelder is a 17 km (11 mi) tributary river of the Itz in the districts of Sonneberg (Thuringia) and Coburg (Bavaria). It flows into the Froschgrundsee, which is drained by the Itz, near Schönstädt.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Effelder

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Froschgrundsee

    Froschgrundsee, also known as Schönstädtspeicher, is a retention basin to protect the city of Coburg in Bavaria from the flooding of the Itz, Effelder, and the Grümpen. It lies in the municipality of Rödental in Upper Franconia.

    200 m · reservoir · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Effelder

Airports
Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 70 km · Nuremberg (NUE), 95 km · Karlovy Vary (KLV), 135 km
  • Erfurt → Effelder
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · €8–11
  • Nuremberg → Effelder
    207 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · €27–38
  • Schkeuditz → Effelder
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €19–27
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Effelder

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Effelder. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextBamberg and Nuremberg are both good destinations for a day trip from Coburg.

From Wikivoyage: Coburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    527 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    539 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    643 km
  4. 04
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    699 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    872 km

If you know how people move in Effelder – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Effelder